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Pete Buttigieg: “We have the wrong number of states in the United States.”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Discusses Need for Major Structural Reform, Live from Chicago

Published | Video Starts at 11:10

In a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of Representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of D.C. We have the wrong number of states in the United States. We should take those big swings. You know, that's. That's radical stuff you're talking about, about right here. The radical. And let's talk one more thing, one more radical proposition on the executive branch. (11:10–11:13)

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Suggests that the current number of states in the U.S. is incorrect, implying the need for change.

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